*Warning! Paypal Email Scam!*

dangermouse83

Hi all,

I just thought I's let you know that I just had an email supposedly from paypal.

It was a very genuine looking email, stating that unusual activity had occured on my account. But having read the sender's address, service@ paypaI, I realised it was dodgy.

I have done some research, and IT'S A SCAM!

PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK! the link takes you to "trilinkexchange .com"

I would hate anyone to be robbed of their money, especially as it's so close to Christmas.

This is what the email looked like:





PayPal - Please restore your account access‏From:service@PayPaI.comYou may not know this sender.Sent:08 December 2007 18:08:55To:

Dear PayPal Customer,

We are contacting you to remind you that on December 6, 2007 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account.

In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and Privacy Policy, and to ensure that your account has not been compromised yet, access to your account was limited.
Your account access will remains limited until this issue has been resolved.

To secure your account and quickly restore full access on your account, we encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible by clicking the link below:


Please click here to restore your account access

Failure to verify and/or update your personal records, or if you choose to ignore our request, may result in further limitations or eventual account closure.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this case intended to help protecting you and your account.
We apologize for any inconvenience.


Sincerely,

PayPal, Inc.
P.O. Box 45950
Omaha, NE 68145
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the header of any page.

To modify your notification preferences, log in to your PayPal account, click the Profile sub-tab, then click the Notifications link under Account Information. Changes may take up to 10 days to be reflected in our mailings. PayPal will not sell or rent any of your personally identifiable information to third parties. For more information about the security of your information, read our Privacy Policy at

Copyright © 2007 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. PayPal is located at 2211 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95131.




I really hope no one's been a victim of this



All the best

Dangermouse

pennylane99

I get scam paypal and ebay emails all the time...just bin them

dangermouse83

I'd had one from barclay's bank once. Not that I'm a customer of theirs!
I just thought I'd warn people as it looks so genuine.

skeggylass

:beer: THANKS FOR LETTING US KNOW. MY PARTNER SAYS IM TOO TRUSTING AND I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT WAS GENUINE SO ITS GOOD TO KNOW THAT THEY ARE BEING SENT.
THANKS:beer:

dangermouse83 wrote: »

Hi all,

I just thought I's let you know that I just had an email supposedly from paypal.

It was a very genuine looking email, stating that unusual activity had occured on my account. But having read the sender's address, service@ paypaI, I realised it was dodgy.

I have done some research, and IT'S A SCAM!

PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK! the link takes you to "trilinkexchange .com"

I would hate anyone to be robbed of their money, especially as it's so close to Christmas.

This is what the email looked like:





PayPal - Please restore your account access‏From:service@PayPaI.comYou may not know this sender.Sent:08 December 2007 18:08:55To:

Dear PayPal Customer,

We are contacting you to remind you that on December 6, 2007 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account.

In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and Privacy Policy, and to ensure that your account has not been compromised yet, access to your account was limited.
Your account access will remains limited until this issue has been resolved.

To secure your account and quickly restore full access on your account, we encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible by clicking the link below:


Please click here to restore your account access

Failure to verify and/or update your personal records, or if you choose to ignore our request, may result in further limitations or eventual account closure.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this case intended to help protecting you and your account.
We apologize for any inconvenience.


Sincerely,

PayPal, Inc.
P.O. Box 45950
Omaha, NE 68145
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the header of any page.

To modify your notification preferences, log in to your PayPal account, click the Profile sub-tab, then click the Notifications link under Account Information. Changes may take up to 10 days to be reflected in our mailings. PayPal will not sell or rent any of your personally identifiable information to third parties. For more information about the security of your information, read our Privacy Policy at

Copyright © 2007 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. PayPal is located at 2211 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95131.




I really hope no one's been a victim of this



All the best

Dangermouse

angelatgraceland

I had one supposedly from Paypal a couple of weeks ago stating that there was a payment pending to go into my account for about 48 euros. I knew there was nothing due to me and guessed it to be a scam. It had a link to log into my account(as usual)
I did not follow the link-I forwarded it to Paypal who verified it had not come from them.

pennylane99

this site updates with copies of some of the latest email/phishing scams, including from banks etc

http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/

londondulwich

I received the one about a pending payment for euros, as well as some others about a need to update my details or closure of my account.

Paypal make it clear that whenever they write to us they always use first names. So any message calling you by your email address or just 'customer' is from a fraudster.

tricia2673

I have had these from almost every bank you can think off, apart from anything else the grammatical mistakes in them make you supsicious.

kahlquist

Hi,

Paypal has teamed up with a company called Iconix to help identify legit paypal emails from the spoof ones.

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/cps/securitycenter/general/IconixOverview-outside

Application is only in Beta now but paypal and other companies have signed with the company.

They have versions that work with Web based email clients as well as Outlook.

Ken

reformedEffortMaker_2

dangermouse83-thank you for your post. Have you emailed paypal about you this?.

firespire

If it says "Dear PayPal Customer" and not your actual Paypal registered name is always a scam I understand.